The Ancient Texans
Terms
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- assimilate
- To blend into another culture
- forage
- To wander in search of food
- What discovery was one of the most important made by early hunters?
- Fire
- adobe
- Building material made of sun-dried earth and straw
- shaman
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A person believed to have the power to cure the sick and forecast and control the future.
- confederacy
- A union of peoples or groups
- artifact
- An object made or altered by humans
- nomad
- A member of a group that wanders from place to place
- culture
- A way of life developed by people to satisfy their needs
- What was the Comancheria?
- A vast area of land that included parts of Texas, Mexico, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and New Mexico, where the Comanche lived.
- How did the prehistoric peoples first arrive in the Western Hemisphere?
- Through a series of migrations from Asia over a Land Bridge
- anthropologist
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A scientist who studies the origin, movement and way of life of humans
- How did the Kiowas keep records of their lives?
- Painted pictures on Buffalo Hides
- archaeologist
- A scientist who studies the material remains of the past
- Why are Apaches remembered mostly as warriors?
- They spent most of their final years in Texas fighting.
- prehistory
- history before anything was written down